This innovative text, built on the foundations of Watson’s Caring Science, demonstrates how nursing professionals can develop virtual relationships that encompass caring and understanding in professional, teaching/learning, and everyday cyber communications. It describes how caring and love can transcend distance, space, and time in our increasingly virtual world to preserve the basic fabric of humanity as we physically interact less and electronically interact more. Straightforward and concise, the text offers specific practices for teachers, students, and professionals to support caring in a digital world, along with practical examples that enable readers to envision ways to create their own caring online presence.
The text provides examples of initiatives aimed at establishing ongoing intent to care on levels ranging from personal to global. Included are a variety of educational activities that rely on digital resources to facilitate interaction, collaboration, learning, and connection. Learning objectives and knowledge-check questions in each chapter reinforce information, and a corresponding MOOC and other free professional online trainings are available to readers to augment study.
Key Features:
- Built on Watson’s Caring Science and expanded through Sitzman’s research
- Contains specific information and practical examples for faculty, students, and professionals who interact online
- Provides examples of online caring initiatives from personal to global
- Validated by seven research studies and extensive online experience of the authors
Cuprins
Contents
Preface
PART I
Overview of Jean Watson’;s & Human Caring Theory; With Digital World Applications
1 Watson’s Caring Science as Context for Digital World Caring
2 Caring Science Foundations
3 Caritas Processes 1 Through 5
4 Caritas Processes 6 Through 10
PART II
Conveying Caring When Engaged in Teaching, Learning, and Interacting in the Digital World
5 Conveying and Sustaining Caring in Digital Learning Environments
6 Expressing Caring in Digital Communications
PART III
Expanding and Continuing Digital World Caring
7 Expressing Global Intent to Care: Free and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Trainings
8 Caring Continuing
PART IV
Teaching Materials
9 Course Resources
Index
Despre autor
Jean Watson, Ph D, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, is distinguished professor emerita and dean emerita of the School of Nursing at the University of Colorado. She is the founder of the Center for Human Caring in Colorado, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and a past president of the National League for Nursing. Dr. Watson is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden, and five honorary doctoral degrees, including Honorary International Doctor of Science awards from Goteborg University, Sweden, and Luton University, London. Dr. Watson’s caring philosophy is used to guide new models of caring and healing practices in diverse settings worldwide. At the University of Colorado, Dr. Watson holds the title of distinguished professor of nursing, the highest honor accorded its faculty for scholarly work.